treated in the same context. You can also specify a character by its
octal code: enter @kbd{C-q} followed by a sequence of octal digits.
-@cindex searching for non-ASCII characters
+@cindex searching for non-@acronym{ASCII} characters
@cindex input method, during incremental search
- To search for non-ASCII characters, you must use an input method
+ To search for non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you must use an input method
(@pxref{Input Methods}). If an input method is enabled in the
current buffer when you start the search, you can use it while you
type the search string also. Emacs indicates that by including the
You can also include character ranges in a character set, by writing the
starting and ending characters with a @samp{-} between them. Thus,
-@samp{[a-z]} matches any lower-case ASCII letter. Ranges may be
+@samp{[a-z]} matches any lower-case @acronym{ASCII} letter. Ranges may be
intermixed freely with individual characters, as in @samp{[a-z$%.]},
-which matches any lower-case ASCII letter or @samp{$}, @samp{%} or
+which matches any lower-case @acronym{ASCII} letter or @samp{$}, @samp{%} or
period.
Note that the usual regexp special characters are not special inside a
@item @kbd{[^ @dots{} ]}
@samp{[^} begins a @dfn{complemented character set}, which matches any
character except the ones specified. Thus, @samp{[^a-z0-9A-Z]} matches
-all characters @emph{except} ASCII letters and digits.
+all characters @emph{except} @acronym{ASCII} letters and digits.
@samp{^} is not special in a character set unless it is the first
character. The character following the @samp{^} is treated as if it